Body shrinkage due to Arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in tropical wintering range
Reductions in body size are increasingly being identified as a response to climate warming. Here we present evidence for a case of such body shrinkage, potentially due to malnutrition in early life. We show that an avian long-distance migrant (red knot, Calidris canutus canutus), which is experienci...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:52138 2023-05-15T14:27:38+02:00 Body shrinkage due to Arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in tropical wintering range van Gils, J. A. Lisovski, Simeon Lok, T. Meissner, W. Ozarowska, A. de Fouw, J. Rakhimberdiev, E. Soloviev, M. Y. Piersma, T. Klaassen, M. 2016 application/pdf https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/52138/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/52138/1/vanGils_et_al-2016-Science.pdf https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad6351 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.96b9d800-eff9-40a6-b98a-7ef1dd36ac2f https://hdl.handle.net/ unknown https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/52138/1/vanGils_et_al-2016-Science.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/ van Gils, J. A. , Lisovski, S. orcid:0000-0002-6399-0035 , Lok, T. , Meissner, W. , Ozarowska, A. , de Fouw, J. , Rakhimberdiev, E. , Soloviev, M. Y. , Piersma, T. and Klaassen, M. (2016) Body shrinkage due to Arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in tropical wintering range , Science, 352 (6287), pp. 819-821 . doi:10.1126/science.aad6351 <https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad6351> , hdl:10013/epic.96b9d800-eff9-40a6-b98a-7ef1dd36ac2f EPIC3Science, 352(6287), pp. 819-821, ISSN: 0036-8075 Article isiRev 2016 ftawi https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad6351 2021-12-24T15:45:36Z Reductions in body size are increasingly being identified as a response to climate warming. Here we present evidence for a case of such body shrinkage, potentially due to malnutrition in early life. We show that an avian long-distance migrant (red knot, Calidris canutus canutus), which is experiencing globally unrivaled warming rates at its high-Arctic breeding grounds, produces smaller offspring with shorter bills during summers with early snowmelt. This has consequences half a world away at their tropical wintering grounds, where shorter-billed individuals have reduced survival rates. This is associated with these molluscivores eating fewer deeply buried bivalve prey and more shallowly buried seagrass rhizomes. We suggest that seasonal migrants can experience reduced fitness at one end of their range as a result of a changing climate at the other end. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Calidris canutus Red Knot Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) Arctic Science 352 6287 819 821 |
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Reductions in body size are increasingly being identified as a response to climate warming. Here we present evidence for a case of such body shrinkage, potentially due to malnutrition in early life. We show that an avian long-distance migrant (red knot, Calidris canutus canutus), which is experiencing globally unrivaled warming rates at its high-Arctic breeding grounds, produces smaller offspring with shorter bills during summers with early snowmelt. This has consequences half a world away at their tropical wintering grounds, where shorter-billed individuals have reduced survival rates. This is associated with these molluscivores eating fewer deeply buried bivalve prey and more shallowly buried seagrass rhizomes. We suggest that seasonal migrants can experience reduced fitness at one end of their range as a result of a changing climate at the other end. |
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van Gils, J. A. Lisovski, Simeon Lok, T. Meissner, W. Ozarowska, A. de Fouw, J. Rakhimberdiev, E. Soloviev, M. Y. Piersma, T. Klaassen, M. |
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van Gils, J. A. Lisovski, Simeon Lok, T. Meissner, W. Ozarowska, A. de Fouw, J. Rakhimberdiev, E. Soloviev, M. Y. Piersma, T. Klaassen, M. Body shrinkage due to Arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in tropical wintering range |
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van Gils, J. A. Lisovski, Simeon Lok, T. Meissner, W. Ozarowska, A. de Fouw, J. Rakhimberdiev, E. Soloviev, M. Y. Piersma, T. Klaassen, M. |
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Body shrinkage due to Arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in tropical wintering range |
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Body shrinkage due to Arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in tropical wintering range |
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Body shrinkage due to Arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in tropical wintering range |
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Body shrinkage due to Arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in tropical wintering range |
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Body shrinkage due to Arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in tropical wintering range |
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body shrinkage due to arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in tropical wintering range |
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